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<span id="Column_002dmajor-Format-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">3.2.2 Column-major Format</h4>
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<p>Readers from the Fortran world are used to arrays stored in
<em>column-major</em> order (sometimes called &ldquo;Fortran order&rdquo;).  This is
essentially the exact opposite of row-major order in that, here, the
<em>first</em> dimension&rsquo;s index varies most quickly.
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<p>If you have an array stored in column-major order and wish to
transform it using FFTW, it is quite easy to do.  When creating the
plan, simply pass the dimensions of the array to the planner in
<em>reverse order</em>.  For example, if your array is a rank three
<code>N x M x L</code> matrix in column-major order, you should pass the
dimensions of the array as if it were an <code>L x M x N</code> matrix
(which it is, from the perspective of FFTW).  This is done for you
<em>automatically</em> by the FFTW legacy-Fortran interface
(see <a href="Calling-FFTW-from-Legacy-Fortran.html">Calling FFTW from Legacy Fortran</a>), but you must do it
manually with the modern Fortran interface (see <a href="Reversing-array-dimensions.html">Reversing array dimensions</a>).
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